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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.  –Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Make voyages, attempt them, there is nothing else.” –Lord Byron in ‘Camino Real’ by Tennessee Williams

Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea!  And never a saint took pity on my soul in agony.

–Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet – except in dreams.

–Jerome K. Jerome

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

–Joseph Conrad

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

–George William Curtis